Heber J. Grant Quotes

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.